for anybody who missed this, i want to turn to the good news i got today from the white house, i wouldn't be deported, well, not yet anyway, you may know that alex jones is petitioning for it for my views on gun laws. jay carney said let's not let arguments over the second amendment violate its first. the second amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, however, the constitution not only guarantees the right to bear arms, but also guarantees free speech. fundamental to our policies, americans may disagree and express them vigorously. but nobody should be punished by the government because he or she expressed a view on the memory morning or any other public concern.

so america, i'm afraid the bad news for you, i'm going to be sticking around, the good news for those back in britain who won't have to have me back, that is all for us tonight. "ac360" starts now. we begin with a man whose courage is inspiring, he raised his voice from deep inside syria, raised his voice against the repeated lies, by assad. he defied the dictator, insisting on using his own names in interviews, talking about the crimes the regime has committed. he has done this knowing full well that the regime that has tortured and killed so many, could simply choose to do away with him. he insisted we broadcast his name. >> when i chant, i want freedom, i can hear my voice for the first time in my life.

now, how can i give up this, even if it costs me my life? >> imagine that, a grown adult hearing his voice for the first time. well, three weeks ago, syrian secret police arrested him and his brother. today, we got great news, we learned he was freed. he became seriously ill during his detention, close to death and was not given medical treatment. he is with his family tonight in syria. his brother is in custody, and zedun and his family fear for his safety. you can go to a facebook page the family set up to get the latest on his brother's condition, to find out how to try to help secure his release. a relative says they thank everyone worldwide, especially this program and viewers for keeping their story in the public eye, which we'll continue to do as long as it takes, and we hope to speak with zadun as soon as possible. and neither side has a monopoly

on the truth, one study shows violence linking death with guns. when people are allowed to carry concealed weapons, violent crimes slow down. yet newer studies cast doubt on that conclusion. the bottom line, finding a way to study the problem, would be hard enough even if this were not already a pressing and emotionally charged subject. but it is, so with a shortage of facts but a surplus of victims and anguish, the debate has evolved into exclusively competing articles of faith. >> the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. >> well, that one view, more guns in more places, here is the other. >> and when it comes to preventing future acts of violence in our schools, let me say this. more guns are not the answer. >> that was connecticut governor

dan malloy, his view, and wayne lapierre, from the nra, ring true to a whole lot of people, that is because each side can point to examples to prove their point. also, general mcchrystal and his views. take a look. >> reporter: if you wonder whether or not good people armed with guns really do help stop more gun violence, look no further than the shooting inside this san antonio theater in december. around 9:30, december 17th, 19-year-old jesus manuel garcia allegedly opened fire at the china guard restaurant. investigators say he was targeting his ex-girlfriend who worked there. police say when the employees fled, the shooter chased after them in the parks lot, firing at them. in the chaos, he also shot at a san antonio patrol car. after the officer shined a light on him. >> he was having a difficult time dealing with the breakup,

and that is what may have set him off to come over here and commit this act. >> reporter: garcia then followed the restaurant employees into the movie theater next door. the gunman kept shooting as panicked movie-goers poured out the exit doors. >> could have died, you know? and i'm glad i have okay. and i have another day with my son. >> reporter: one of the fleeing patrons was wounded. but so many may have died, if not for the quick thinking of the off-duty sergeant. the sergeant happened to be working security at the theater and ran toward the sound of the shooting. when castianno spotted the suspect coming out of the bathroom with his gun drawn, she shot him four times. >> that was really nerve-racking, and -- it was -- i'm not going to lie. it was frightening. but you know, the training kicks

in. >> reporter: garcia, the suspect is charged with attempted capital murder and has not yet entered a plea. he survived, but more importantly, so did everybody else in the movie theater. thanks to one of the good guys with a gun. but as we all know not every shooting incident ends like the one in san antonio. those in favor of tighter gun controls may argue that good guy with a gun scenarios can make a bad situation even worse. take what happened in arizona. january 8th, 2011, when a lone gunman opened fire on congresswoman gabrielle giffords at a community event. while jared loughner was spraying gifford and the crowds with bullets, an armed citizen was in the drug store buying cigarettes. when he heard the gunfire, he ran to the scene. he was legally armed. by the time he arrived his safety was off and he was poised to fire. trouble is, he almost shot the wrong man.

zamudio on fox news. >> as i approached the people wrestling with them, one of the other gentleman had gotten the gun away from him. and that is what i saw first, was him holding the gun. and i had my hand on my pistol. >> reporter: he has says he is very lucky that he didn't shoot. listen to what he told msnbc. >> i saw another individual holding the firearm, i kind of assumed he was the shooter. so i grabbed his wrist, told him to drop it, forced him to drop the gun on the ground. when everybody said no, no, it was this guy, i almost shot him. >> reporter: the man he almost shot was the real hero, who tackled the shooter and wrestled his gun away from him. two very different shooters, two very different scenarios, and the debate continues. cnn new york. >> and the debate is growing, vice president joe biden meets tomorrow with the nra, gabrielle

giffords and her husband, kelly, both gun owners setting up a lobby group to press for new laws. the toughest ban in the nation, is sparking protests from the gun advocacy groups. more on the perspective from margaret hoover, and peter barnyardt, it is different seeing these reports and two different incidents. it is sort of a rorschach test, it is a tough debate on how this task force is. >> the first story was about a police officer, she happened to be not on duty. she was a police officer, no one disagrees that police officers should have guns, and she said her training kicked in. i bet you guys looked long and hard for a story like that. but the one you saw doesn't do any damage to the pro-gun

argument, bank ecause it was a police officer, they don't argue that a police officer should not be armed. the second one is the actual situation that you get when you have lots and lots of individuals running around trying to play vigilante. >> it is interesting, there were others e-mailing us, saying we were afraid to tell that story, because they point to us as a sign that people being armed is a good idea, kind of to address the theories. you actually say there is more common ground and the thing that is the president could do that the nra would actually give thumbs up to t. what do you see? >> the truth is i'm much less interested in the politics than the policies that can come from it. the president has taken flak for not doing enough on gun control. but there are things like enforcement. 77,000 people have lied on criminal background checks on

whether they could legally obtain a gun. they have been identified by the fbi, turned over by the justice department, and not processed. they could say prosecute people on their background checks. there are also the national instant criminal background check mechanism, is not fully funded by the federal government. but could be. and that would prevent people like the shooter at virginia tech who had a mental illness in his background, would have registered him. when he went to go buy his gun, it would have sent a red flag there is a mental illness in the background, maybe he shouldn't be legally able to buy a gun. there are things the federal government can do -- that the nra wouldn't necessarily disagree with. >> i totally disagree. there is no common ground in this argument. >> what? >> the nra, there is zero common ground. the national rifle association and most of the united states congress is against any sort of regulation of guns, period. i mean -- >> that is simply not true.

david keen on this channel, on cnn, says he is in favor of not having people registered -- >> he wants the gun show loophole, who allows people not to go through any background check. >> then actually register anybody with a mental illness, or register people which is -- that is a nonstarter -- you can't have a data base of people who owns guns, but a data base of anybody who receives psychiatric counseling? how does that work? >> i don't think that is what it is saying, she says there is absolutely no common ground defeating the purpose of this exercise. i think the american public wants us to find common ground. you know, the nra leadership defers to nra leadership. there are reasonable americans who are responsible gun owners, like gabrielle giffords and her husband. >> name one republican. >> i just named three. >> name one republican in congress who is for any gun

control today. >> some of the few -- remaining from the northeast -- >> and mark kirk, and susan collins, you can go through the list. it is not a republican/democratic issue. >> it is, the big obstacle, john boehner, he is humiliated, and then has to find a situation where he allows a vote in the house when most of his republicans would not support it. his own stated policy is impossible to imagine it happens. >> so what do you think is going to happen? >> what is going to happen is nothing. >> but the obama administration will tee is up, and bring it to executive decision. i do think they believe that the politics shifted enough, they can make some republicans pay a price that they would not even be willing to vote. >> but remember, in 1994, the assault weapons bill passed and the democrats got mauled at the polls after that. and a lot of people remember that, especially in the west and the south. and you're right, margaret, a

lot of democrats don't want to touch this issue either. i'm just saying there is no common ground, because the people who don't want gun control, they don't want gun control and recognize they will pay a price politically for supporting gun control. >> since 1994, there are not as many democrats in the conservative districts as there used to be. and we've seen some of the conservative democrats who still exist, moving in response -- >> look if you look at the possibility there is no possibility for common ground, we'll get nowhere. >> what are the guidelines now on how far the government can go in restricting gun ownership -- >> very modest, i think margaret mentioned a couple of areas. but when you talk about the significant things that can be done, like banning assault weapons, president obama can't do that himself. guns are portable. this is very much an issue. the mayor points this out. new york and andrew cuomo can

pass all the laws they want, but as long as guns are so easy to get in virginia and other place, they come up here and use the guns in crimes. unless states also regulate it -- >> to that point, one of the programs in the bush administration, they prosecuted under federal laws state violations because they were also violations of federal law, what did they do? they ended up locking up local criminals in federal courts to get them off the streets and the carry rate diminished by 50%, there are things they can do now that would help gun control efforts that don't have to be passed by congress. >> it doesn't have to be either/or, we could say 40% of the guns are not bought by the shows, even all the best enforcement of the current laws wouldn't solve that problem. i think the most important meeting is not the nra, it is walmart, walmart is the potential problem, why? they have an economic incentive

to end the gun show loophole so people buy their guns at walmart. and if walmart gets behind the idea of saying that all guns have to be sold in a place where you can actually have a background check like walmart, that is a powerful ally for the president. >> you actually wrote a piece looking at the second amendment arguing that it is not quite what people think. >> well, it changed dramatically. you know, for a hundred years the idea that the second amendment gave anyone, an individual, a right to bear arms what as chief just berger said, was a law. they started making the argument that second amendment does -- that it was only militias. and in 2008, the supreme court agreed. they said yes, you do have an individual right. now the extent of that right has not been clarified. justice scalia says that individuals can have handguns in

the home. but can they have them outside the home? can they have bigger weapons or concealed carry laws? those are still up for grabs, and even if congress manages to pass something it is not all clear it is going to be declared constitutional. >> and justice scalia does not say a person can have a gun anywhere, any time they want. even the most conservative supreme court justice says there are limits. >> thank you for following me and tweeting about this. there is a big meeting with the former general, stanley mccrystal, we'll talk about gun control with him and the war in afghanistaas it now stands, we'll be right back. at 1:45, the aflac duck was brought in with multiple lacerations to the wing and a fractured beak. surgery was successful, but he will be in a cast until it is fully healed, possibly several months.

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we'll also talk to general stanley mcchrystal about that, and the weapons he used during his long career and whether civilians ought to be able to use weapons. you made headlines, what is your view when you see the military-style weapons in the hands of civilians? >> i spent a lifetime of carrying weapons, and firing a round at 3,000 feet per second. and when it hits human flesh it is devastating, designed to be that way. and that is what i want soldiers to carry. but i don't want those weapons around our schools or around our streets. i think that if we can't -- it is not a complete fix to just address assault weapons. but i think if we don't get very serious now when we see children being buried, then i can't think of a time when we should. >> so you don't buy the argument that the only good answer to a bad guy with a gun is good guy with a gun? >> i don't, and i think it is time we have a serious

discussion about it, and not an either/or discussion, it is not a question of no guns at all in america. >> you're not talking about taking all guns away? >> exactly, it has to be about weapons i'm not comfortable having around my family. >> let's talk about afghanistan, the idea dplofloated earlier th week, was the idea there would be no troops after 2014, it is being considered from 15,000 to 16,000. can you see from a military standpoint, not a political, where there would be no u.s. troops after 2014? >> i think that i certainly wouldn't try to second guess what commanders on the ground are analyzing right now. but i would say that first when i arrived in 2002 in afghanistan, pretty early after the fall of the taliban, the country was devastated physically. and traumatized psychologically, it was literally a basket case, didn't know what was up. and normal was before 1978, that

was 24 years at the time. people couldn't remember normal. they made a lot of progress. there are girls in school. there is progress, greater places. there is progress, it is imperfect. now they're scared. they're scared of 2014 because there is a all riglot to lose n they had chaos for 34 years, and the afghan people don't want to lose it. i think what the afghan people want from the u.s. and the west is strategic partnership, not numbers but a relationship that gives them a confidence that we are enough of a partner that if they need our help, not thousands of troops, maybe not even billions of dollars. >> but some sort of presence. >> some sort of presence and some sort of relationship. >> but how do you have that relationship when you have afghan soldiers and police killing u.s. nato forces and utilize personnel, there is a huge amount of distrust, probably more than there has

ever been. >> there is an awful lot of distrust, we have to work through that. >> the whole program is based on the idea of building up afghan security forces. and yet now we stop going on patrols with these guys. >> for a period they did. but in reality, again, if you use the anecdote, to prove, sometimes it is not true. the wider story, sometimes you have been there, there is an awful lot that is good, disappointing. but we have to look at it, it is so complex to take one narrow part would be incorrect. >> your strategy was counterinsurgent policy, and protect the population, build up the central government, as well. extend the power of the central government out to areas where it had not been traditionally and go after the taliban. defeat the taliban, not just degrade them. defeat them. that is not the strategy anymore, the whole strategy seems to have gone by the wayside. it is now just limit al-qaeda,

and build up security forces. is that -- i don't hear people talk about winning these days. >> when i was in iraq, particularly with special operations i was in charge of a very kinetic part of of the operation against al-qaeda and iraq. >> right, and a lot of your book focuses on that, it is actually very fascinating. >> right, when i got to afghanistan, i realized that the taliban is not this national liberation front, waiting for people to come rescue them. they're extraordinarily unpopular and mistrusted because of how poorly they governed before, and how extreme they are. what they want is a reasonable legitimate government, of course, they're struggling to have that. the right approach was to protect the afghanistan people and give them a reason to believe. >> but you go out on patrol with these guys, last time i was out

with the marines in helmand province, and you would go out on ground, have the meeting with local elders. they had not seen the national leaders in a long time. and you go to kabul and there are afghan politicians building mcmansions, and you wonder where is the money going? >> it is hard, there were a lot of mistakes made. and when the united states entered, we didn't understand the country or the problems. if you went there today, it is not perfect. but progress gets made slowly in any society. and i think just because it is hard and takes a long time doesn't mean it is not important for america's strategic interest in the region, which is stability. >> but you can't do that. i mean the whole idea of building up the national government and confidence, you can't do that without troops on the ground. and so where does -- i mean, if we're pulling out, whether it is

we leave no troops or six thousand troops or 16,000 troops, what is the mission? >> as i outlined in the book in 2009, when i asked president obama to approve more forces, they were really a bridge, to stop the taliban from gaining momentum, to secure our areas and grow the national security forces. they have had time, there has been progress, they have got a long way to go. but there has been a lot of progress. and i think it is time that the afghan forces and afghan government stand on its own as much as possible. they may need some help, but they can do an awful lot themselves. >> in the book you write about the trust between the military and the united states and the obama white house. and the distrust based on where it occurred early on, based on kind of the politics of the operation. i don't want to misquote you, but basically you talked about -- look at my notes. the distrust, the

decision-making process again, on afghanistan. that is where the distrust was, the decision-making process. it was that, you don't go into too much detail on what that actually means, what does that mean? >> well, the term i used was lack of trust and a trust deficit. and the reason i used those was because i consider those a little different from mistrust, whenever you have a new organization, a new administration, any new administration it is a team that has to come together. it has to build links among itself and build trust over time. it comes in, and works with the department of defense and military. it takes time to build a team. it takes time to build trust. >> but you can build trust quickly if you feel the other person has your back and is not double-dealing or talking out of the other side of their mouth or leaking stuff to reporters. did you feel that the political apparatus understood what you wanted? understood the military? >> i'm not sure you can build trust as quickly as you say. i think you build trust when you speak the same language. when you think about it,

civilians and military grew up in slightly different cultures and it takes a while to grow together. look at president lincoln at the beg beginning of the civil war. it took him quite a while to grow comfortably as commander-in-chief, and the generals to grow there. it was 1863 before those two elements became an effective team. >> do you think the trust was better -- >> i think it has maturity of the players, one thing i would stress is building trust between the civilian leadership. >> it required a large number of troops. there were those who argued just focus on al-qaeda and drone strikes. do you have any doubts about it? do you wish you had been able to continue that strategy? >> well, to answer the second part, yes, i do. i thought a lot about it. i am convinced it was absolutely the right strategy.

it was the only strategy, we had to win the support of the afghan population, they're not just the prize, they're the point of it all. >> but had we won -- because k again, you go to these meetings and the guys are on the fence, they say you leave tonight, the taliban comes back tomorrow. >> if i am a 50-year-old afghan living there, and americans come in, and they say we want you to do this. but the taliban come at night, i don't have a choice. i have to be scared. i have to hedge my bets, and an awful lot of afghans have been put in that position. only when there is enough security that they can be protected and their government is legitimate enough that they can believe in it do they have a strong ability. so it is very difficult to judge afghans who act very rationally, we think well, why wouldn't they fall in completely with the government? they're in a position very hard to do that. >> it is a fascinating book, i really appreciate you coming on and talking about it. >> thanks, and i appreciate it.

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wants you, that is right, you, to see photographs e-mailed to them almost two years ago. they want them to be public because they are concerned the man they love is forgotten. imagine if you were the loved one, holding the sign, saying i am here in guantanamo, do you know where it is? in each picture, the english is crude, this is the result serving america for 30 years, why you can't help me. or simply help me. this one seems to reference how long levinson has been missing, fourth year, you can't or you don't want? this marks the trip where he was working as a private investigator, looking into cigarette smuggling. in 2010, his family received this proof of life video, it, too, was sent anonymously with no demand or explanations. the story got media coverage, last year they plastered times

square with missing posers, around the time mahmoud ahmadinejad was there for a meeting. he hinted that levlevinson may e been in iranian custody. >> i remember that last year american and intelligence groups had a meeting, but i have not followed up on it. i thought they had come to some type of agreement. >> the u.s. officials believe that he is held somewhere in south asia, but have not said where. christina levinson said she believes it is in south iran, i spoke to her. why do you choose to release these photos now. >> >> what i want people to know is there is still a hostage in iran, and that is my husband, bob levinson. >> you have no doubt he is held in iran? >> i do not. >> what makes you so sure? >> bob went to the island for a

24-hour visit, and he has not been seen since he left there. >> that is iranian territory. >> that is a month -- >> right. >> and less than a month after that, after he went missing on march 9th, there was an article in an iranian-sanctioned newspaper, "press tv," that said that bob was in custody and he would be released in a couple of days but that has not happened. >> and has the iranian government ever communicated with you? because in a statement yesterday, a spokesperson said "levinson is not in iran, there is no single evidence that he is in iran". >> well, yes, i have talked to them. and there may be no evidence that he is in iran. there is also no evidence that he is not. i had not heard or seen anything. >> how closely is the state department working with you? what are they telling you? >> well, the state department is

trying to resolve this through diplomatic channels. unfortunately, i feel that they need to be much more vocal about the case in order to get bob home safely. >> how are you holding up? i mean, you and the rest of the family. i know your oldest daughter is getting married in february. just day to day, how do you get through? >> we just keep working to get bob home, one day at a time. hopefully he will be home as soon as possible. i would like it to happen tomorrow. so would the rest of my family. but it has not yet. but we keep hoping it will be tomorrow. >> were the photos sent directly to you? >> yes, to my e-mail. >> i got to just ask, when you opened up that e-mail, what was that like to see that? >> it was -- heartbreaking and yet good, because it -- it indicated that he is alive. and we had had very little proof before we received these pictures, and the video.

we had none. >> this broadcast is seen around the world. if there is anybody involved watching this or if your husband is in some way able to watch this is there anything you want to get across? >> well, i want bob to know that we love him and we miss him every day, and we will never stop looking for him. please stay well so that we can get you home safely. >> and i guess some people might ask why you waited so long to release the photos. what was the thinking on not releasing them earlier? >> well, the photos came to us, but there was no indication of what we were supposed to do with them, why we received them. what they wanted as a result of giving us these pictures. and so we chose to hold on to them because they are very disturbing. and i -- at the time, we thought it would be best. now, we need the public to know that he is still a captive.

>> christina levinson, i'm so sorry for what you and your family are going through, and we'll continue to monitor this. thank you. lance armstrong, and others who tried to expose the truth about doping on the u.s. postal team. plus, he is getting ready to confess to doping, doing an oprah interview next week. how much will actually come out from that interview? we'll talk about it ahead. [ indistinct shouting ]

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"ac360" following now, tonight, we know that oprah winfrey will interview lance arm strong, aired january 15th. he will address the issues that destroyed his career. but will he actually confess to doping in detail? it will be his first interview since he was stripped of his titles and banned for life from cycling. but how much detail and how much following questions will he get into, that is something we're going to have to wait and see. he is not the only one speaking out. the head of the anti-doping agency is also talking about the history and how the cycle superstar intimidating others to

keep quiet. >> was lance armstrong involved in intimidating other riders to keep them quiet? >> he was, it was tough, all the others were scared of the result of them simply tell the truth. >> what could lance armstrong do to them. >> incinerate them. >> they laid out pages of documents, including eyewitness testimony from others. that the husband, franky rode with armstrong on the u.s. postal team was one of the first to testify against armstrong. it took tremendous courage. >> betsy, in the intro, we heard him talk about the threats, and intimidation. to anyone else it may sound crazy. but you actually lived this. you yourself, said that lance armstrong tried to destroy you after you testified five years

ago to hearing him admit to taking drugs. what did he do? >> well, e-mail accounts were hacked. and i filed a police report. we went through -- we hired attorneys so we could discover who hacked into our e-mail account. we spent thousands of dollars. we got nowhere because a virginia court doesn't have to comply with michigan subpoena. i think he got a text from lance in spanish which said caution. >> franky is your husband? >> yes, yes, i received numerous phone calls throughout the years. they have stopped in the past couple of years. and it is just the threat of we see what lance has done with other people, whether it is with us. and the loss of jobs with franky getting -- having his career completely derailed because he

refused to get in a doping program along with lance. >> what is amazing, as you read the reports of these investigations and the evidence that has come out, and the things that you have said and so many other people have now finally testified to, i mean, the public image that lance armstrong has created of himself seems at such odds to what so many other people in his circle have experienced over the years. >> well, that is true. but that is because he created the perception and the reality were completely different. so what the person you see is the image he wants you to see, he is a chameleon, i have said this before. if he wants you to like him, and if you're member of the media or if you're a politician, if you're wealthy and he can use you, he is going to be very charming. and if he wants to send a message and bully you, then he

can be very intimidating, and very, very mean. >> juliette, you broke the news that lance armstrong was considering admitting to doping. juliette, do you think this is kind of a full admission interview, or how do you think he is going to play this? >> well, that really depends on your definition of full admission. we're hearing it will be an admission, how big it will be is up to anyone's guess. but will he detail all his doping, his secret blood transfusions, the needles in the arm that he took for epo, all of those things, and will he talk about people like betsy and her husband, franky, who he tried to crush because they dared to say he was doping. i really don't think that oprah is going to get into that in her interview. >> betsy, i heard you laughing, i know you have those similar

doubts. my question is, how detailed will oprah get in her questioning, because if you read the reports the details are so damning, and i would be curious to hear about any of the allegations, betsy, do you think it will be a cake walk for him? >> i presume it will be, i base that on the interview that oprah did with marion jones where she did not know the sport well enough. she didn't know the doping that went in track and field, in order to ask the tough questions or the follow-up questions. and as well, in april of 2011, oprah welcomed and embraced lance on to her program, when lance was under a federal criminal investigation. and never asked him about it. she embraced him all the time. and if oprah did, he was on her show a number of times. and if oprah did ask the question, i think she just took him at face value, despite the

fact that there were books written on lance's doping. and there was the detail, a lot of what has come out now is not new. a lot is new. but there is a lot of stuff also that has been out there. it is just -- the question is why has it taken so long to get out here. and the fact that he chose somebody like oprah instead of going on to "60 minutes," i think speaks volumes, as well. >> it is interesting, juliette, i don't know what kind of response you have gotten based on your reporting. and you have been out in front of this. i get tweets where people say leave lance armstrong alone. he has done so much. do people -- do you find there is still a huge groundswell of people who just don't believe that he doped? >> i actually do, believe it or not after all the reporting we have done about his doping and the 11 teammates, and the reports. >> because you can't read the

hundreds of pages of documents and not see there is a lot of smoke there. and there is fire. >> i think people don't want to know. those people who saw him as an inspiration for their fight against cancer or their -- maybe their family member's fight against cancer, they just don't want to know. and i'm not sure they will be tuning in at all. but next week, we'll hear something from lance, whether it is a full admission where he has tears that make him seen contrite, i'm not sure that that will happen. but it is a first step in the american people seeing that he actually lied to the world and america for a decade. >> we thank you for joining us, we'll see how it goes, thank you so much. >> thanks anderson. >> you're welcome. and bailed them out, aig said they may sue the government. in other words, you may end up paying even more. next, their decision. you can feel.

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